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Steps to Overcome Temptation
Earlier this year David Mathis sat down with Don Carson to discuss sanctification. In this three-minute clip, Carson talks about some simultaneous steps to take for overcoming temptation, including a...
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When the Gospel Comes to Life
The gospel rightly, thoughtfully, and in biblical faithfulness expounded, will not only win sinners to Christ but it will also shape the lives of Christians to greater conformity to Jesus.Don Carson...
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What the Bible Says About Sanctification
Sanctification is important. It's deep (as in cosmic), and it's personal (as in it's about God's work in you). But what exactly does it mean?Sam Storms helps us with this short...
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Our Most Practical Conference Yet
We're getting down and dirty this fall. And we want you to join us.Get off your theological high horse, get level with the gravel, and let's talk how sanctification really happens in the trenches of...
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Send Us a Quote, Win Some Books
Books don't change lives, sentences do. In an early sermon at Bethlehem, John Piper explains that sometimes the most life-altering insight from reading is concentrated in a sentence or two. It happens...
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100 Quotes from You on Sanctification
Without further ado . . . the randomly selected winner of the quote contest is Andrew Donth, who shared some Spurgeon with us. Here's the quote:Charles Spurgeon: "If he gives you the grace to make you...
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Teach Children the Bible Is Not About Them
When I go into churches and speak to children I ask them two questions: First, how many people here sometimes think you have to be good for God to love you? They tentatively raise their hands. I raise...
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A Conference Focusing on the Power of Paradoxes
This fall the Desiring God National Conference will wrestle with paradoxes. Not contradictions. Things like Philippians 2:12–13, “You work . . . for God is at work in you to will and work.” And 1...
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The Effects of Aging on Sanctification
In this five-minute video John Piper shares about some expected and unexpected ways that aging has worked in his experience of sanctification.John Piper, along with Kevin DeYoung, Jarvis Williams,...
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Self, Doubt, and Writing
I used to think my self-doubt and insecurity about writing were signs of my profound humility. It felt noble and heroic to be this full of agonizing self-doubt. It felt lowly and meek to be so tortured...
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Some Proven Weapons in the Fight for Holiness
When Paul says to put to death the deeds of the body “by the Spirit” (Romans 8:13), I take him to mean that we should use the one weapon in the Spirit’s armor that is used to kill. Namely, the sword....
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The Foundational Action of God
God’s action for us and in us through Christ is the foundation underneath our pursuit of practical maturity in the gospel of Jesus Christ.God’s design for us to pursue practical maturity in the gospel...
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Jumpstart Your Stalled Sanctification
Has it ever seemed like your sanctification is plateauing? Ever felt like you were spinning your spiritual tires?In such times—relax, we’ve all had them—you may run through the typical means-of-grace...
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Sanctified By Doing Your Job
It is all too common for Christians to think that service to God is something that takes place either in the context of the local church — teaching Sunday school, shoveling the church sidewalks,...
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Work to Rest for Sanctification
R W Glenn is one of the seminar speakers at our upcoming National Conference. Read his latest post and learn more about the conference at the events page.________Recent posts related to our National...
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Sanctification in the Everyday (Free eBook)
How does the cross and victory of Jesus affect your everyday sanctification?Over the past 30 years John Piper has preached several messages that equip listeners to apply the Bible in their daily lives....
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Do We Ignore the Bible?
I can remember it clearly. I was at a conference on how to make places of worship more accessible to people with disabilities when a woman asked a panel of religious leaders, “what should we do with...
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The Sanctifying Job
I once worked at a ministry where I was evaluated on both specific work goals and on five character traits. My annual review addressed how well I did on achieving certain production targets and whether...
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How Does Physical Exercise Relate to Sanctification?
Exercise, sleep, and diet — how do they relate to our sanctification? Over 40 years ago John Piper was confronted with this issue after realizing the relationship between patience and sleep. Basically,...
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What It Means to "Act the Miracle"
God's grace is catalytic. To truly experience it is to be changed for the better.The Christian gospel floods our life with God's gracious provision, both outside of us and inside. Sins forgiven....
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How to Attend a Conference
Speaking of our upcoming National Conference, John Piper explains, What we're really after is to know God better, and love him more, and serve him more fully, not just to get away and hear some more...
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Sanctification: So Why the Long Word?
It's such a long word — sanctification. And it has such a churchy ring to it. No one uses this language outside the church.So why not adopt a simpler term from the secular world and freight it afresh...
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The Shelf Life on Preaching the Gospel to Yourself
The clock is ticking. If you're faithfully "preaching the gospel" to your own soul, day in and day out, but distancing yourself from regular Bible intake, your freshness is fading. There's an...
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Fear, Anxiety, and Growing in Sanctification
Ed Welch is a biblical counselor and the author of several books including Running Scared: Fear, Worry & the God of Rest. He serves on the faculty of the Christian Counseling and Educational...
View ArticleWhen We Need a Lifeline
"That book has been a lifeline."A young man just said this to me last week as he and his wife face indescribable suffering — his youngest son will likely die in the next few months. If you’ve never...
View ArticleA Weighty and Necessary Topic
"This is a very weighty, very painful, and very necessary topic," explains John Piper. In this short video he extends his invitation to Desiring God's November conference on disability, "The Works of...
View ArticleWe Are About Comfort... and Conquest
This conference is not solely about comfort; it is also about conquestIf you think a conference about God and disability is going to be mostly about comforting those who are hurting, you are only...
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Wrestling with an Angel
God and his word are the most important things you can share with anyone, including someone who is suffering because of disability. And not far behind are testimonies of God’s extraordinary goodness,...
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National Conference Live-Stream
If you're not able to join us in Minneapolis for the conference this weekend, each of the main sessions will be live-streamed in both English and in Spanish at www.desiringgod.org/live.Transmisión en...
View ArticleDon't Discount Them Like the Culture Does
It speaks volumes when a pastor addresses the reality of disability with biblical authority. In this 3-minute video, John Knight, father of a child with multiple disabilities, explains how "The Works...
View ArticleGod Is More Relentless Than Disability
John Knight says that churches need pastors who love the word of God. That's one central aim of the upcoming disability conference November 8.In this short video, John challenges pastors to set forth a...
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Brothers, We Are Not Professors
It has been said by one great Reformed theologian that we are living in the most anti-intellectual age in the church’s history. We are the TV generation, making way for the Internet generation. Images...
View ArticleHow John Piper Responds to Death Threats
Everyday gospel ministry requires courage. Whether it’s the courage to keep going when insulted, or honestly repent when you’ve been wrong, or not cave when threatened physically, public Christian...
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Future Grace: April Conference in South Florida
Miami metro, here we come. On April 5–6, 2013, we will gather, God willing, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, for a Desiring God Regional Conference under the bannerFuture Grace:...
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Why a New Student Missions Conference?
The new website for Cross has just gone live.Cross is a new student missions conference. I serve on the leadership team — along with Thabiti Anyabwile, Kevin DeYoung, David Platt, Zane Pratt, David...
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National Conference 2013: Celebrating the Work of C.S. Lewis
Fifty years ago this fall, C.S. Lewis quietly crossed from this life into the next.While the assassination of John F. Kennedy captured the world’s attention on November 22, 1963, one Clive Staples...
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If You Don’t Know Jack
Perhaps you’re a verifiable lover of C.S. Lewis and his mere Christianity, his Narnia chronicles, his brilliant and diabolical missives from hell itself, and his unmatched blend of uncompromised heart...
View ArticleOur Choices Matter
Max McLean, the lead actor and director of the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, has performed the role of Screwtape hundreds of times since the play debuted in 2010. This means that...
View ArticleSeeing Pleasure Through a Demon’s Eyes
Max McLean, director and lead actor in the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, goes in character to describe the demonic perspective on pleasure.From the book, page 44:Never forgot that...
View ArticleAdvice for Christian Artists
Max McLean encourages Christians in the arts to integrate their faith in every step they take. “Make your faith the source of your art,” he says.In this short video he explains the passion and strategy...
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Are We Fascinated with Lewis’s Fame or His Influence?
The video below introduces the amazingly influential C.S. Lewis and invites you to our National Conference on Lewis, September 27–29.If your time is short, just go straight to the video. But if you...
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Introducing the C.S. Lewis “Small Talks”
We want this conference to be the next best thing to visiting Narnia for yourself.The Desiring God 2013 National Conference, September 27–29 in Minneapolis, is taking up the theme “The Romantic...
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When (Seemingly) Opposites Meet: Keller and Piper on Lewis
C.S. Lewis has been called the “Romantic Rationalist” because he brings together two seemingly opposite things. He is both rationally sharp and imaginatively brilliant, which is a rare combination.In...
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Shane & Shane Invite You to Our National Conference
Musical artists Shane & Shane will be leading corporate worship at our upcoming National Conference in September. In this short video, they invite you to join us.A special early-bird rate for the...
View ArticleWould We Have Been Friends? Keller and Piper on Lewis
C.S. Lewis tended to be generous, maybe even too generous.Lewis’s influence is profound in the lives of Tim Keller and John Piper, but they both wonder whether they would be friends with him if he were...
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Tim Keller on the Writing Brilliance of C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis was an exemplary communicator of Christian truth. So was the 18th-century theologian Jonathan Edwards.The use of images was Edwards’s forte, while Lewis excelled in illustrations. Both men...
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Lewis Live-Stream Free for All
UPDATE: See available audio and video rebroadcasts.At long last, we gather this weekend in Minneapolis for the Desiring God 2013 National Conference.The fullest experience will be on the ground in...
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15 Quotes from the C.S. Lewis Conference
As we finish uploading all the audio and video of the C.S. Lewis conference online for you in the next few hours, here’s a sampling of fifteen quotes from the conference talks that caught our...
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The Remarkable Reality of Union with Christ
It may be the most important doctrine you’ve never heard of.So says Kevin DeYoung about the reality of “union with Christ” — and sadly it seems he’s right.But hopefully you aren’t among that number —...
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When the Vine Really Became Precious
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)It was a July morning in Manila in 1985 when...
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